Bush Outlines Plan for 2015 Moon Landing
Found on ABC News on Wednesday, 14 January 2004
WASHINGTON Jan. 14 — President Bush beckoned the nation "forward into the universe" on Wednesday, outlining a costly new effort to return Americans to the moon as early as 2015 and use it as a waystation to Mars and beyond.
Bush said he envisioned "a new foothold on the moon...and new journeys to the world beyond our own," underscoring a renewed commitment to manned spaceflight less than a year after the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and a crew of seven.
"Return" to the moon? Perhaps it's not really a return, but a first visit. After all, there are many people who believe that the moon landing was the biggest scam in history. There are too many open questions which the NASA didn't answer, like the waving flag in a vacuum or missing craters from the rocket engines.